Paintings of Terror

"—Choose him! I choose him!" Liu Yufei stretched his arms emotionally, pointing directly at Mu Yiran.

Everyone looked at him with different expressions on their faces.

"Choose him! Everyone chooses him! Choose the one with the surname Mu!" Liu Yufei's facial features were distorted due to excessive emotion, "Anyone who has entered the first two paintings knows that no matter who this person formed a group with, he was the only one who came out in the end Where's his mate?! Have you ever wondered where all his mates have gone? Why is he the only one out there? Listen - don't be fooled by his appearance, if we die less and less, In the end, the rest of the people are with him. What kind of consequences do you think will happen? He must leave alone, and the rest of the people will all die in the painting! So choose him! We all choose him and let him go first. Die! Choose him!"

No one spoke, only Liu Yufei's roar echoed with the dust in the dilapidated house.

"What are you still hesitating about?" Liu Yufei's expression was approaching madness, and he gestured with both hands, "You forgot? You don't know—if no one is selected before nine o'clock, all of us will Everyone will die! There is no time! Who can guarantee that the one who dies randomly is not yourself?! Choose! Choose quickly! Do you want to delay until nine o'clock?"

Seeing that everyone was still unwilling to open their mouths with downcast eyes, Liu Yufei grabbed the front of the owner of the pancake stall next to him and stared at him with protruding eyes: "Say! Who do you choose?! Choose quickly! Otherwise, I will choose you! You know, You're going to die! You're going to die! Choose!"

The owner of the pancake stall was trembling, completely lost his will and thinking ability, just subconsciously listened to Liu Yufei's words, and raised his finger to Mu Yiran.

Mu Yiran looked calm, glanced at everyone present, and said lightly: "We all know that the rules in the painting are irreversible and irresistible. So at least one sentence Liu Yufei said is right. It is meaningless to delay until nine o'clock. , someone will die here, unless everyone doesn’t want to leave alive.”

The doctor raised his eyes and looked at him: "Yes, whether we want to or not, we can only choose one person according to the rules. Although... it is morally difficult, but compared with all dying here, it can only be the right of two evils." Take the lesser."

"That's enough! Don't fake benevolence and morality here!" Liu Yufei interrupted violently, "Human nature is here, shit is nothing! I just know that I don't want to die, and no one's life is as important as my own! Don't tell me I don’t think so in your heart, how selfish people are, who doesn’t know who?! I’m not like you hypocrites, who obviously want others to die in their hearts, but pretend to be helpless on the surface. Who cares! Don’t say these words to justify your own private thoughts! Hurry up and say who you choose!”

The doctor didn't know whether he was distracted by what was said or he didn't want to pay attention to this madman, so he lowered his eyelids again and stopped talking.

Liu Yufei became even more irritable, grabbed Weidong again, and forced him to ask: "Say! Who do you choose?"

Wei Dongzheng was in a state of confusion, and slipped his eyes to Ke Xun who was beside him.

Ke Xun also looked calm, and said lightly: "I abstain."

Wei Dong hurriedly followed: "I also abstain, and I won't vote for anyone. Choose whoever you like!"

Liu Yufei let go of him with a sneer: "Heh, pretending to be a good holy father, thinking that not choosing anyone can show your noble humanity? Pushing the burden of killing to others is more despicable and shameless than actively choosing someone!"

Ke Xun raised his chin slightly, and looked at him with downcast eyes: "You are right, I am mean and shameless, you choose me."

Liu Yufei stared at him fiercely, then pressed the doctor again: "Who do you choose? Don't talk about benevolence and morality, choose immediately!"

The doctor looked at him calmly: "Please let me think about it, after all, it's no different from killing someone."

Liu Yufei stopped pestering him, and went to question the other two: "If you don't vote for someone else, someone else will vote for you. After nine o'clock, everyone will die. It's better to die for one than for all. What's there to hesitate about? Voting It is the best result to find someone who sacrifices for everyone. There must be such a person. Don’t hesitate, choose quickly. Time waits for no one. I choose Mu, he is the most cunning person, When it comes to personal interests, he will definitely harm others first to protect himself, choose him! Choosing him is good for us all!"

"Hey," Ke Xun narrowed his eyes, and walked in front of Liu Yufei, "Don't go too far. Whoever is elected by others must follow their personal wishes. If you jump up and down and interfere here, I won't be convinced by the result of the vote."

Liu Yufei lowered his head more than half of Ke Xun's. Wanting to meet his gaze, he could only raise his face and sneered: "It doesn't matter whether you are convinced or not. As long as the result comes out, it will be recognized and passed by the painting. Can you accept it?" How old are you?!"

Ke Xun also laughed, but there was no smile in his eyes: "Just now you have finished the selection, right? So if I beat you unconscious now, it's not an obstacle to the rules, right?"

"You—what do you want to do!" Liu Yufei took two steps back angrily.

"I've made it very clear," Ke Xun raised his hand, "Who am I, you can re-evaluate my fist after you have tasted it."

"You two—" Liu Yufei turned his head and shouted at the other two in panic, "Choose the one whose surname is Mu! Choose the one whose surname is Mu!"

"I have something to say." Mu Yiran said suddenly, his eyes turned to Ke Xun.

Ke Xun turned around and walked back: "I just like to hear you talk, let's talk."

Wei Dong: "..."

Mu Yiran glanced at the others: "Since a person must be selected, there is no need to say anything superfluous. Everyone present may be the one to be selected, but we are human beings, not waiters. Slaughtering lambs, the difference between humans and sheep is that at least humans should have the right to explain why they are worthy of being spared, and others can decide who to choose based on each individual's reasons. I don't know what you mean?"

"I agree." Ke Xun said.

"I agree too." Wei Dong followed.

"I also think this proposal is very good," said the doctor calmly and rationally, "at least it gives everyone a last chance."

The other two also agreed, but the pancake stall owner was still in a daze and didn't say a word.

Liu Yufei was emotional: "I don't agree! The surname Mu wants to cheat, he wants to cheat!"

"Five people agree, one person abstains, and one person opposes. The proposal is passed." Ke Xun said as he stepped forward and punched Liu Yufei in the face.

This punch kept its strength, and only made Liu Yufei take three or four steps back, with two streams of nosebleeds on his face, and successfully interrupted his howling.

"Let's begin." Ke Xun said.

Everyone paid no attention to Liu Yufei who was stunned by the beating, and only looked at each other a few times before the doctor asked, "Who will come first?"

One of the two who were in charge of digging the grave last night thought it over and said, "I know, everyone wants to get out alive, and no one wants to be the one who was voted out. Don't mention human nature in this case.

"I just want to say that I am an ordinary person. I have lived my life without doing anything bad. I live my life honestly every day. My wife divorced me two years ago and left me and The child ran away without a trace.

"My child is only three years old this year. My parents are old and in poor health. They spend half of the year in the hospital. If I die here, I don't know what will happen to my child...

"Maybe I ate the last meal and didn't finish the next meal, maybe my eyes are wide open every day, I don't know why I don't have parents, or maybe, I'm sick and no one cares, so thin and small body, curled up in a corner pitifully lonely ...

"I'm sorry... I don't want to use my child to sell miserably, but I, I really don't want to leave my poor child to die here, I just hope, I hope you can, when you vote later, you can think about it a little bit My situation, I, I thank you all..."

When the man spoke, tears were streaming down his face.

Everyone was silent for a while, and after a while, the doctor said, "Well, let me say a few words for myself. I am a doctor. Although there are no tools and medicines in the painting, I can also treat the injured under certain circumstances. Emergency treatment. I don’t know if there will be another one or the next one after this painting goes out. If so, I think my professional skills will always be able to help everyone. I hope everyone will vote later , can consider my usefulness, thank you."

Another person who was in charge of digging the grave quickly continued the doctor’s words: “I have uses, too. I am a private company owner and I have money. As long as you let me live, I will give you 10 yuan each after I get out of the painting. 10 yuan, I promise! If you don’t believe me, I can write you a 20 yuan IOU right now! No—20 yuan! I’ll give you [-] yuan each!”

"...I'm so tempted." Wei Dong whispered to Ke Xun.

At this moment, Liu Yufei recovered from the stunned state of being beaten, and he didn't care about finding Ke Xun to take revenge first, and shouted: "Don't choose me, I can't die, I'm a doctoral student from a prestigious university in Beijing, I'm I am a key talent cultivated by the country, and I am useful to the country!

"Do you know how scarce talents are in the country now? Do you know how difficult it is for the country to cultivate a talent? This country needs me, and social progress also needs me. Whether you can live a better life in the future, you all need me like this Talents!

"Survival of the fittest, you should understand? Whether it is a large society or a temporary group like ours, retaining excellent talents and weeding out useless and mediocre people will ensure the healthy survival and efficient development of the group. Best way!

"So you can't choose me, you should choose someone who is of no use to our group! Like him, like them! Use your brains and think about it!"

Liu Yufei pointed at the pancake stand owner and Ke Xun Weidong.

Wei Dong was very speechless: "Is this quality a doctorate from a prestigious school? Is it fake?"

Ke Xun was expressionless: "There is no necessary connection between education and quality."

"Then tell me, what advantages and uses do you have that are worthy of being kept?!" Liu Yufei glared at the two of them ferociously.

"Oh, I didn't have anything to say at first, but after seeing your performance just now, I suddenly discovered my own strengths," Ke Xun said, "At least I won't bite others first like a mad dog just to save my own life." die."

As soon as the words fell, everyone's eyes flickered with thought.

Mu Yiran looked at Ke Xun with deep eyes.

This kid is really unexpected from time to time.

The way he behaves in front of people always seems to be a little loose and meaningless, and he always gives people the impression of a bad boy who does his own way.

But what he said just now, whether it was intentional or unintentional, revealed a trace of not sharp, but capable of killing... cunning.

Yes, one hit kills.

He doesn't even need to use a single word to explain why he deserves to be left behind. He only needs to grasp the point that people care about, fear, and taboo the most, and use a comparison of superiority and inferiority to make himself never fail.

——Compared with Liu Yufei's selfish, crazy, and random picking and biting, no matter how others choose him, no one will choose him because Liu Yufei is at the bottom of him.

Thinking about it now, maybe his abstention at the beginning was also a foreshadowing?

... Is he that smart?

People have thousands of faces.

This Ke Xun... Maybe he really shouldn't be underestimated.